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Amazon
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AMZN

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NASDAQ

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Industry:

Catalog & Mail Order Houses

What they produce:

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Amazon.com, Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates retail Websites, such as amazon.com and amazon.ca. The company serves consumers through its retail Websites and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. It also offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on company’s Websites, and their own branded Websites. In addition, the company serves developers and enterprises through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually various type of business. Further, it manufactures and sells the Kindle e-reader. Additionally, the company provides fulfillment services; miscellaneous marketing and promotional agreements, such as online advertising; and co-branded credit cards. Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Current P/E Ratio & Competitor P/E:

Amazon.com, Inc. 2,766.93
Apple, Inc. 13.06
Barnes & Noble, Inc. N.A.
Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC (Privately held) N.A

Dividend Information:

Div & Yield: N.A.

52 Week High/Low:

264.11 - 166.97

Competitors:

Apple, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC (Privately held)

Costco Wholesale
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COST

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NASDAQ

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Industry:

Discount, Variety Stores

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Costco Wholesale Corporation engages in the operation of membership warehouses. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. Its product categories include candy, snack foods, tobacco, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, and cleaning and institutional supplies; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, office supplies, cameras, garden and patio, sporting goods, toys, seasonal items, and automotive supplies; dry and institutionally packaged foods; apparel, domestics, jewelry, house wares, media, home furnishings, and small appliances; and meat, bakery, deli, and produce. The company also engages in the operation of gas stations, pharmacies, food courts, optical dispensing centers, one-hour photo centers, hearing aid centers, and print shops and copy centers; and car wash and travel businesses. In addition, it provides business and gold star (individual) membership services. As of November 1, 2012, the company operated 612 warehouses, including 442 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 83 in Canada, 32 in Mexico, 22 in the United Kingdom, 13 in Japan, 9 in Taiwan, 8 in South Korea, and three in Australia. Further, it is involved in online businesses at costco.com in the United States and costco.ca in Canada. The company was formerly known as Costco Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Costco Wholesale Corporation in August 1999. Costco Wholesale Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Current P/E Ratio & Competitor P/E:

Costco Wholsale, Inc. 24.70
Target Corp. 14.37
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 15.34
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc (privately held) N.A

Dividend Information:

Div & Yield: .275

52 Week High/Low:

104.43 - 78.81

Competitors:

Target Corp.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc (privately held)


Cisco



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CSCO

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NASDAQ

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    Networking & Communication Devices

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP) based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industries worldwide. It offers switching products, including fixed-configuration and modular switches, and storage products that provide connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers, as well as function as aggregators on local-area networks and wide-area networks; and routers that interconnects public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications. The company also provides set-top boxes; cable modem CPE products, such as data, EMTA, and gateways; cable modem termination systems products; videoscape software products; and headend equipment, which include encoders, decoders, and transcoders. In addition, it offers collaboration products comprising IP phones, call center and messaging products, unified communications infrastructure products, and Web-based collaborative offerings, as well as telepresence systems that integrates voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; and security products consisting of firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private networks, unified clients, network admission control, Web gateways, and email gateways, which deliver identity, network, and content security solutions for mobile, collaborative, and cloud-enabled businesses. Further, the company provides wireless products, such as wireless access points, controllers, antennas, and integrated management solutions; data center products, which include blade and rack servers, fabric interconnects, and server access virtualization; and home networking and other networking products. Additionally, it offers technical support services; and responsive, preventive, and consultative support services for its technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

    Current P/E Ratio & Competitor P/E:

    Cisco Systems, Inc. 11.64
    Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. 1.45
    Hewlett-Packard Company N.A.
    Juniper Networl, Inc. 48.09

    Dividend Information:

    Div & Yield: .14

    52 Week High /Low:

    21.3 - 14.96

    Competitors:

    Alcatel-Lucent, S.A.
    Hewlett-Packard Company
    Juniper Networl, Inc.

    Intel

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    Stock Symbol:

    INTC

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    NASDAQ

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      Industry:

      Semiconductors - Broad Line

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      Intel Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells integrated digital technology platforms primarily in the Asia-Pacific, the Americas, Europe, and Japan. The company offers microprocessors that process system data and controls other devices in the system; and chipsets, which sends data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, such as keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive or solid-state drive, and CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives; system-on-chip products that integrate its processing functions with other system components, including graphics, audio, and video onto a single chip; wired network connectivity products; and wireless connectivity products. It also provides mobile phone components comprising baseband processors, radio frequency transceivers, and power management integrated circuits; and mobile phone platforms, such as Bluetooth wireless technology and GPS receivers, software solutions, customization, and interoperability tests. In addition, the company offers endpoint security, network and content security, risk and compliance, and consumer and mobile security software products for consumer, mobile, and corporate environments to protect systems from malicious virus attacks, as well as loss of data. Further, it develops and licenses embedded and mobile device software products that comprise operating systems, virtualization technologies, middleware, and development tools; and provides NAND flash memory products, which are used in solid-state drives, portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and other devices. The company markets its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and industrial and communications equipment manufacturers in the computing and communications industries. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

      Current P/E Ratio & Competitor P/E:

      Intel, Inc. 9.62
      Texas Instruments, Inc. 18.76
      Advanced Mirco Devices, Inc. N.A
      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. N.A

      Dividend Information:

      Div & Yield: .2250

      52 Week High/Low:

      29.27 - 21.22

      Competitors:

      Texas Instruments, Inc.
      Advanced Mirco Devices, Inc.
      Samsung Electronics Co.,


      Google


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      GOOG

      ‍Stock Exchange:

      NYSE

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      • Spotting and squashing spam on Search Yesterday
        When you search with Google, our goal is to provide you with results from relevant and authoritative sources. We work hard to ensure that search spam doesn’t get in the way of you finding the information you’re looking for.You can get ...
      • The High Five: Search trends for the start of June Yesterday
        With a little help from the Google News Lab, take a peek at a few of this week’s most-searched trends:Signed, sniffed, delivered, I’m yoursJust in time for summer, the U.S. Postal Service announced their first-ever scratch-n-sniff stam...
      • #teampixel is very verde this week Yesterday
        Though one famous frog may disagree, when you’re on #teampixel, it’s easy to be green. And this week, #teampixel found pops of emerald everywhere—in a crack in the sidewalk, in the grip of a cat, and in unusual architecture.The n...
      • Close encounters of the fishy kind Yesterday
        When the Earth is viewed from space, we can see that our planet is more blue than green. From the diverse organisms that call the ocean home, to the complex ways it stabilizes the climate, our survival is undeniably intertwined with the health of ...
      • Explore the high seas in VR and Google Earth on World Oceans Day Yesterday
        On World Oceans Day, we honor one of our most unique ecosystems and important resources. This year, we invite you to learn more about our vast and varied oceans, and some of the challenges facing them, by immersing yourself in virtual reality (VR)...


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      Networking & Communication Devices

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      Google Inc., a technology company, maintains an index of Web sites and other online content for users, advertisers, and Google network members and other content providers. It offers AdWords, an auction-based advertising program; AdSense program, which enables Web sites that are part of the Google Network to deliver ads from its AdWords advertisers; Google Display, a display advertising network that comprises the videos, text, images, and other interactive ads; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a real-time auction marketplace for the trading of display ad space; and YouTube that provides video, interactive, and other ad formats for advertisers. The company also provides Google Mobile that optimizes Google’s applications for mobile devices in browser and downloadable form, as well as enables advertisers to run search ad campaigns on mobile devices; and Google Local that provides local information on the Web. In addition, it offers Android, an open source mobile software platform; Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system; Google Chrome, a Web browser; Google+ to share different things online with different people; Google TV, a platform for the consumers to use the television and the Internet on a single screen; and Google Books platform to discover, search, and consume content from printed books online. Further, the company provides Google Apps, a cloud computing suite of message and collaboration tools, which primarily includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google translate, and Google Sites; Search Appliance, a search technology for use within enterprises; Google Site Search, a custom search engine; Google Commerce Search for online retail enterprises; Google Maps Application Programming Interface for businesses; and Google Earth Enterprise, a firewall software solution for imagery and data visualization. Google Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

      Current P/E ratio & Competitors P/E:

      Google, Inc. 21.56
      Facebook, Inc. 109.74
      Yahoo! Inc. 5.27
      MSN (Privately held) N.A

      Dividend Information:

      Div & Yield: N.A.

      52 Week High/Low:

      689.5 - 556.5201

      Competitors:

      Facebook, Inc.
      Yahoo! Inc.
      MSN (Privately held)
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